Mailscanner Spam Whitelisting

[Julian Field]

At 00:22 27/07/2002, you wrote:
>I'm whitelisting some stuff but I'm still seeing items get tagged.  What
>am I missing here?

You are running SpamAssassin from procmail or something like that. You are
not running SpamAssassin from MailScanner. If you were, you wouldn't get
most of those headers.

I suggest you ask on the SpamAssassin satalk mailing list.


>Example
>
>In spam.whitelist.conf
>From: reports at marketwatchmail.com
>
> >From reports at marketwatchmail.com  Fri Jul 26 17:06:18 2002
>Return-Path: <$g>
>Received: from q4.marketwatchmail.com (q4.marketwatchmail.com
>[206.146.143.89])
>         by eeyore.med.wayne.edu (8.12.2/8.12.2) with SMTP id
>g6QL5n9S026281
>         for <hcartwri at med.wayne.edu>; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 17:05:50 -0400
>(EDT)
>Message-Id: <200207262105.g6QL5n9S026281 at eeyore.med.wayne.edu>
>Received: (qmail 97393 invoked from network); 26 Jul 2002 21:20:47 -0000
>Received: from unknown (206.146.143.85)
>   by q4.marketwatchmail.com with QMQP; 26 Jul 2002 21:20:47 -0000
>Mailing-List: contact reports at marketwatchmail.com
>X-No-Archive: yes
>List-Help: <mailto:afterthebell-html-help at marketwatchmail.com>
>List-Unsubscribe:
><mailto:afterthebell-html-unsubscribe at marketwatchmail.com>
>List-Subscribe: <mailto:afterthebell-html-subscribe at marketwatchmail.com>
>From: CBS MarketWatcher <reports at marketwatchmail.com>
>To: hcartwri at med.wayne.edu
>Delivered-To: mailing list afterthebell-html at marketwatchmail.com
>Delivered-To: moderator for afterthebell-html at marketwatchmail.com
>Received: (qmail 13628 invoked from network); 26 Jul 2002 21:01:11 -0000
>Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 21:01:11 (GMT)
>X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
>X-mailer: AspMail 3.53 (SMTP546388)
>Subject: *****SPAM***** CBSMW After The Bell Report: Senate confirms SEC
>nominees
>Mime-Version: 1.0
>Content-Type: text/plain
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>X-DCC-servers-Metrics: eeyore 1049; Body=1 Fuz1=2 Fuz2=2
>X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=9.2 required=5.0
>         tests=FWD_MSG,INVALID_DATE,FORGED_RCVD_FOUND,COPYRIGHT_CLAIMED,
>               OPT_IN,CLICK_BELOW,ONLY_COST,LINES_OF_YELLING,
>               HTML_WITH_BGCOLOR,CLICK_HERE_LINK,MIME_LONG_LINE_QP,
>               WEIRD_PORT,CTYPE_JUST_HTML,MSG_ID_ADDED_BY_MTA_2,
>               MISSING_MIMEOLE,MISSING_OUTLOOK_NAME,AWL
>         version=2.40
>X-Spam-Flag: YES
>X-Spam-Level: *********
>X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.40 (devel $Id: SpamAssassin.pm,v
>1.102 2002/07/18 15:18:39 jmason Exp $)
>X-Spam-Prev-Content-Type: text/html
>X-Spam-Prev-Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

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Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
                             Southampton SO17 1BJ